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The Accessible Icon Project is an ongoing work in design activism, begun in 2010. Founded by Sara Hendren and Brian Glenney, the work started as a guerilla street art campaign: placing a clear-backed sticker on top of parking signs depicting the International Symbol of Access. As street art, the work was intended to use the language of graffiti—unsanctioned, informal public expression—to pose questions about disability in the built environment and in democratic societies: Who is able, and who is disabled? What do inclusive streets, architecture, schools, workplaces, and economic structures look like? Press attention to the graffiti campaign brought Hendren and Glenney into collaboration with Triangle, Inc., and the project set in motion collaborative events that used the adoption of a new graphic to have pointed conversations about disability and public life. With design refinements from Tim Ferguson-Sauder, the icon also grew from a street art graphic to a formal isotype in line with other standard 2D icons that can be seen in public spaces everywhere. In 2013, the project was accessioned by the Museum of Modern Art (NY), for its Architecture & Design permanent collection. Since its inception, educational institutions, private companies, cities and townships, governmental organizations, hospitals, and—most importantly—individual activists all over the world have appropriated the new icon for their own purposes. (And since the icon is in the public domain, free for use by anyone, it appears in all kinds of places far beyond the founders’ reach!) The Accessible Icon Project has become an activist design campaign that begins with a question about icons and representation. But its animus is a much more ambitious wish to see socio-political structures become materially, meaningfully inclusive: through grassroots work and official policy, by organized efforts and by single acts. You’ve reached the project’s updated website, the mission of which is to highlight the people and actions that have reached out to the project in connection with their own ongoing work. You can see both short- and long-form features on the icon found “in the wild” all over the world, but you can also explore the people and organizations who are making change in all kinds of ways. (A lot of stories are also on our social media page.) See our FAQ, “Notes on Design Activism,” here, and download the icon graphics here.